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<td class="v">1:1</td>
<td>The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;</td>
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<td class="v">1:2</td>
<td>To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;</td>
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<td class="v">1:3</td>
<td>To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;</td>
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<td class="v">1:4</td>
<td>To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.</td>
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<td class="v">1:5</td>
<td>A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:</td>
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<td class="v">1:6</td>
<td>To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.</td>
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<td class="v">1:7</td>
<td>The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.</td>
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<td class="v">1:8</td>
<td>My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:</td>
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<td class="v">1:9</td>
<td>For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.</td>
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<td class="v">1:10</td>
<td>My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.</td>
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<td class="v">1:11</td>
<td>If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:</td>
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<td class="v">1:12</td>
<td>Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:</td>
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<td class="v">1:13</td>
<td>We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:</td>
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<td class="v">1:14</td>
<td>Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:</td>
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<td class="v">1:15</td>
<td>My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:</td>
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<td class="v">1:16</td>
<td>For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.</td>
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<td class="v">1:17</td>
<td>Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.</td>
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<td class="v">1:18</td>
<td>And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.</td>
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<td class="v">1:19</td>
<td>So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.</td>
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<td class="v">1:20</td>
<td>Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:</td>
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<td class="v">1:21</td>
<td>She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,</td>
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<td class="v">1:22</td>
<td>How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?</td>
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<td class="v">1:23</td>
<td>Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.</td>
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<td class="v">1:24</td>
<td>Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;</td>
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<td class="v">1:25</td>
<td>But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:</td>
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<td class="v">1:26</td>
<td>I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;</td>
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<td class="v">1:27</td>
<td>When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.</td>
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<td class="v">1:28</td>
<td>Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:</td>
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<td class="v">1:29</td>
<td>For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:</td>
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<td class="v">1:30</td>
<td>They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.</td>
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<td class="v">1:31</td>
<td>Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.</td>
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<td class="v">1:32</td>
<td>For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.</td>
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<td class="v">1:33</td>
<td>But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.</td>
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